Hosam Helal – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Episode 2 Zayn al ‘Abidin

Hosam Helal
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The speaker discusses the history of Islam, including the use of Sub hang Way as a title and the importance of forgiveness and showing excellence. They also touch upon the negative treatment of women and the need for forgiveness. The speaker provides examples of how people have been treated with harsh language and how they have been treated with it. They also discuss the importance of praying and praying to God.
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Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Bismillah

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Alhamdulillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah who Allah Allah He was

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the woman who Allah. I asked Allah Subhana Allah to bless you and to

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give you the best in dunya and akhira here I mean, the last live

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there was some issue of Hamdulillah we fixed it we're back

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me a lot of words you and your family are up. I mean, as we

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promised every night for the 28 days, the next one eight nights

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and days, Inshallah, we're going to be featuring a program and

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sometimes in the same day more than one program, getting the

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letter and tonight inshallah we're going to begin with the saviors of

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Islam, a series that looks at icons in Islamic history, people

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that changed Islamic history, people that left a beautiful

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legacy behind and really transformed the lives of people

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around them. Tonight Inshallah, we're going to look at somebody

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from the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his

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life. I'll tell you a little bit about him and then inshallah to

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Allah together we can guess who this individual is. This

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individual was from the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam his life. He had a beautiful quality and several

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beautiful qualities. He was known as suggest, the one who

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perpetually frustrated you will be seen in the message of the Prophet

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Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam in the masjid and never we

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prostrating for long periods of time you would be sometimes, you

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know, prostrating for minutes, sometimes for close to an hour at

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a time begging and asking Allah subhanaw taala and making dua for

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the people around him. He was also known as a key in the colloquial

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language now, as the key means smart, but in the classical

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Arabic, as the key means the purified one. So his his tongue

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was pure, his gaze was pure. When he walked around, he carried

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himself with clarity. There was no you know, there was no twisting

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and turning with his speech, very transparent, very clear. And

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people really appreciated that about him. He was also known for

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his generosity, especially in private, especially in private.

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And he was one of the one of the many people that really focused on

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the power of dua, he focused on the power of dua, as a really

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beautiful way of connecting with Allah subhanaw taala. And he would

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often remind people around him that more fully rebirth that he

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do, that the essence of worship is to turn to Allah subhanaw taala.

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And to make dua to ask Allah subhanaw taala even in the

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smallest of things, in the largest things to always turn to Allah

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subhanaw taala and to ask ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada, his mother was

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Persian, she was actually a slave who was set free, and eventually

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married, one of the great tambourine and great Sahaba why

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she read Sahaba of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa

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sallam, by now some of you may have guessed who we're talking

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about tonight, we're talking about Ali ibn Al Hussein, even Ali ibn

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Abi Talib, also known as zeyneb. Then I begin, his mother was one

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of those individuals who really really took Islam seriously. She

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was a revert to Islam. She was a Persian descent, but took Islam

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seriously. And as the scholars say, Hassan Islam was that she

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became genuine in her Islam, and in her submission to Allah

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subhanaw taala. But she passed away at a young age. So similar to

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the Prophet Muhammad Al Salam, as they lived in Aberdeen, here. He

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is an orphan at a young age. And he is now just by himself with his

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or his raised mainly by one of the, one of the slaves in the

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house, one of the one of the servants in the household, and

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Emma, so he was raised by that servant in the house, and really

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interesting to his father, his first teacher, his father, and

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Hussein really paid attention to him and invest in his education

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sent him to learn with some of the greatest scholars who would sit

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with Omaha Bob, he would sit with

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when I'm not with Rama, Jota, but the students of Ramana mahatva, he

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would sit with the students of an even avatar that he would sit with

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many others of the territories, and one individual he would sit

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with often was actually the molar aroma, they would sit with the the

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person who was used to be a slave with Ramana Hapa. And he was set

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free. And still, even though he was set free, there was still a

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little bit of stigma associated with it, especially from some of

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the arrogant members of the community. So the Quraysh would

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come and they would seize it and then I begin sitting with this,

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you know, ex slave and they would say, Why are you sitting with an

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ex slave when you are from Karachi when you are from, you know, the

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prophetic family, you could be sitting with many others who are

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much much more noble in status, and he would say, a Raju Ji Soo

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Hina interfere with the human where the good man will sit

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wherever he can derive benefit. I have no I have no pride, no

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arrogance to sit with somebody that I can learn from. And that's

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what really, really distinguished Zen even Aberdeen. He wasn't

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arrogant. He wasn't egoistic. You wouldn't say I'm not gonna sit

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with this individual. This individual is beneath me. No, he

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would treat everybody with that level of respect. And he would sit

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and learn from anybody that he had access to Subhanallah

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Once you were seen I want you to listen to this carefully once he

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was seen crying around the cabin with his hand raised and by the

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way, then it didn't have a deal would usually go as many times as

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possible. He would do a moron he would stand and he would hold the

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he would hold the, the, the covers of the cab and you pulled them

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really tight, and you'd be making dua to Allah kanatal over and over

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and over again. And sometimes tears would come down his eyes and

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later we're going to find out why was he crying often? But for those

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once asked him you have not a Sula, it will be he was coin, oh

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child of the Prophet Muhammad Salam Of course he's not the

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direct child he's a descendant but it was still given as a title

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coined, you know given given to him as a title. So those asked him

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you have no Rasulillah Why are you crying? Why are you making so much

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dua when I know that three things distinguish you from everybody

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else? That puts you in a much better position with Allah

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subhanaw taala than the rest of us? So of course, I'm saying even

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Ali's they didn't they didn't says Tell me. Tell me what what is what

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is it that you that makes you say that? He said first you are from

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the Prophet Mohammed Salim is family.

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Second, I leave maybe tell him, your grandfather could do Shiva,

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he could ask Allah Subhana Allah on your behalf he's that he's

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close to Allah Subhana Allah. So not only is your not only is your

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grandfather, the Prophet Muhammad said, or your great grandfather,

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the Prophet Muhammad salah, but you also have an even if you

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thought it was a Shaheed and one of the holy fat. And finally, even

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with all of those, you still have the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala.

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So he responded, he says, my respected Brother, look at the

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etiquette look at the love. He says, As for the first point that

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you've raised, Allah Subhana Allah says in the Quran for either

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Newfield, Hafiz suuri Fela and Serba Bina Yo man, even whether it

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is a loon. One the pulpit is blown, there will be no lineage

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taking into account on that day, who you're related to is not going

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to matter. And they're not going to be asked, and then are going to

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be asking in the name of the lineage or on behalf of the

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lineage. As for the second point, Allah Subhana Allah says, Well,

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yes Varona Illa many of Baba Allah so Allah Subhana Allah makes it

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clear that it doesn't matter who is going to advocate and who and

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Yeoman piano nothing is going to be accepted. Only one only that

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which Allah subhanaw taala permits, so you still have to get

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the permission of Allah subhanaw taala and as what you've said, in

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terms of the Ruffner, you're right that I have Allah Subhana Allah is

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that which we all hope for the mercy and the grace of Allah

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subhana data, but even that Allah Subhana Allah says in the Quran

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in Rahmatullah HICO li Boone, mean animosity that the Mercy of Allah

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Subhana Allah Allah is close and near and accessible to those to

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those who not just open to anybody who just okay I want the Mercy of

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Allah, Allah, Allah, I'm gonna get the Mercy of Allah. It's not

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wishful laissent basically a man you can whatever any alligator,

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it's not just about wishful thinking, you don't just get the

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Grace of Allah Subhana Allah by wishing for it, you get it through

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the sun, you get it through excellence, and he's implying

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here, why am I worshiping? Why am I dedicated? Why am I doing the

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best that I can because I want to demonstrate that excellence and SN

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with ALLAH SubhanA Huhtala they lived in Aberdeen was also known

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for his beautiful demeanor with other people. And I want you to

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pause here and take this. As a reminder, if you're going to take

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one thing from the session, take this as a reminder, while I we're

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living in a time now, where it's so easy to hold on to grudges and

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so much envy and jealousy and hatred and division in the

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community. So much focus on the aesthetic, so much focus on the on

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the picture, less focus is given and directed to the heart and the

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state of our hearts. Less focus is directed to truly forgiving, you

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know, to all our relationships for the most part in Lamoureux

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Hammurabi, except the very few that are lost friend that has

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given their grace because of the commitments, most of our

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relationships nowadays have become transactional. If you're important

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to me, I'll keep you in my life. But if you're not important,

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delete block. Not important to me, this panel, so become very selfish

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in many, many ways. Not everybody I don't want to generalize. But

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it's it's become much, much more common, especially now, with the

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difficulties that come with Corona and the difficulties that come

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with and the challenges that come with being alone. We've been, you

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know, we've been kind of pulled in towards ourselves further, and

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that has led some to be selfish, of course, and others have

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hamdulillah have become even more optimistic and more positive and

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more selfless. And may Allah subhanaw taala make us from

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malaria. I mean, now, here's the beautiful incident. Al Hassan had

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never seen. He says what got Bini what they you know who I mean?

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They lived in Aberdeen schedule. So I'll hustle,

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hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle. So the cousin, the cousin of Zealand

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and Aberdeen. So imagine one is the son of a saint and one is the

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son of an essence. So they're cousins. So it has an imminent

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hazard and it hasn't the son of a husband says there was a little

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bit of a dis

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Built between me and David in Aberdeen, and I really need to get

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things off my chest. So I walked I couldn't control myself. I walked

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straight in. And I found him sitting with his friends sitting

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with his, you know, companions in the masjid. So I walked straight

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to him. And I just gave it to him. I started yelling, I started using

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all kinds of words, not cursive words, not swear words, not vulgar

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language, but it was still harsh language. So I gave it to him. And

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once I was done, I walked away. So that same evening, I heard a knock

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at the door, and my heart sank.

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I thought, could it be him coming back to give it back to me? And I

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found him at the door. So I opened the door and asked him, What is

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What did you come here for? He said to me, listen to this, he

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said to me, if what you said about me today is true. May Allah

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subhana, Allah forgive me, and may Allah allow me to be better. But

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if what you said about me today is false, that you've learned he

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didn't say that. But assume you assumed here, you've let your

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emotions carry you to accuse me of things that I haven't done. I

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asked Allah subhana, Allah to forgive you.

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And he passed on something small, like a gift back to me. And he

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walked away. So I held him back. And I said, I'm sorry, I think I

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took it too far. And he looked back with a smile and said,

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Nothing happened between us. It's as if though nothing happened.

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Forget about it. SubhanAllah. So look at that beautiful flower, the

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demeanor the way that you carry yourself. Another example, one

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once he was walking in the market, and again, you know, he was he was

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doing so to understand a little bit why sometimes there are going

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to be disputes. He was into business, because I think that I

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began as a businessman, and he had a lot of property and he had a lot

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of farmland, and because of that he was dealing with a lot of

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people. And sometimes there's gonna be, you know, something will

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happen here and issue will happen there and someone will get

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frustrated, right? So once he was walking down the street, and one

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of the people came to him and started yelling at him, started

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yelling at him, how dare you giving it giving him all kinds of,

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you know, harsh language. So the people that were around said, I'm

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gonna have it you couldn't tolerate the How dare you

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disrespect someone who is related to the Prophet Muhammad Salam.

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This is not the kind of behavior that we're we should be directing

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towards people who have who have that level of respect and that

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level of knowledge and connection with the Prophet of Allah. So what

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is he says, Who 400 module? Leave the man alone, leave him alone.

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And what does he say? He said, I want you to listen to this

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carefully. He said Laqad, Serb tena, Bhima islands, woman su

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tierra anchor mean and Marina Akbar. He said, You have insulted

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us about things that you know about us. But the things that you

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don't know about us are far greater in the sight of Allah,

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meaning that you have come to recognize a flaw in me. Okay,

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you've come to recognize a flaw in me. But the flaws that you haven't

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come to recognize yet, or even more, so and this is his humility.

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He's not going to say How dare you I have the best service in town.

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No, you've come to recognize the flaw. I respect that no problem.

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And you know what, I'm not even going to defend myself. you've

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recognized one of the flaws that I have. But perhaps with Allah, I

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have many, many more that humility. And he said that we've

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come with certainty. You know, when when you're secure in your

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relationship with Allah subhanaw taala. You're not afraid of being

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wrong. You're not afraid of being corrected. Because you know that

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if someone is bringing you something that will allow you to

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be better, it's only fair for you. So you don't shy away from that.

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Allahu Akbar. And so the man felt shy. He says, I felt shy. And then

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David Robinson added, he says, like your hedger, new, a new

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caledonia. Is there something that I can help you with? Is it

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something that's bothering you? Let's if you think let's get to

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the root cause, what's the issue? So he took out 1000 dinars or 1000

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Little homes, and he gave it to the men so I sent him like, we

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didn't give him some money, right as compensation. And on top of

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that, he gave him a small gift, one of the items that he used to

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wear Subhanallah Look at that. Look at that. One time Zainuddin

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Aberdeen, he was imperfect. He was a human being. So one time he lost

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his school. And when he lost his school, he treated one of his

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servants in the house, a little harsh, a little harsh. So the man

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spoke out and says, You're so kind to everybody else and I'm trying

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my best. And you're gonna be treating me with this harshness,

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Zen him that I've been in, took them in. And he said, May Allah

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forgive me. May Allah forgive him. My brother, he calls him my

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brother, servant in the community, my brother, go to the masjid of

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the NABI SallAllahu sallam, go to the masjid and pray to rock as to

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Allah subhanaw taala. And while you're praying, ask Allah Subhana

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Allah to forgive me. And if you do that, you are set free. So he's a

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slave and setting you free that one condition, go to the masjid

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and make dua that Allah forgives me.

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Yeah, Allah Look at that. Look at that. Look at that beautiful

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heart. Allah

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I'm Janet Montgomery I mean, alumna Jana mountain. And if on

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top of that he was actually known, he was actually known to set

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slaves free, he set more than 1000 slaves free. And he would pick the

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day of read the night reads, so the night before he read it

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filtered specifically, and he would set as many slaves free as

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possible. And he wouldn't hire a slave more than one year. So the

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longest period that he would hire somebody as a slave, and of

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course, labor is different, back then then it is conceived now,

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especially with the recent experience with slavery, so on

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that, I encourage you to read a little bit more, but he would try

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to sell as many slides as possible, and he wouldn't keep a

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contract for more than one year. And on top of that, when he would

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set them free, he would ask them if they needed anything. And many

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times he would give them a little bit of extra, a little bit of

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extra money spending allowance. So they're able to start and work

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their way up SubhanAllah. In addition to that, my brothers and

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my sister, there's so much that can be said about setting that

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vision and we have a few moments. But I really want us to connect

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with his advocate with His love, to be inspired to be better, to be

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inspired to be kinder, to be inspired to be more genuine with

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people to be more accessible to people to be more you know, more

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open to feedback more open to criticism to have a pure kind

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heart that forgives that holds no grudges, the whole is not

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jealousy. The whole is no entitlement, no arrogance, because

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once we have that, we will rebuild that feeling of OMA we will

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rebuild that feeling of being accessible to one another. Let's

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look at a few other stories in sha Allah to Allah before we bring

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this to upload closer ask Allah Subhana Allah bless you and your

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family. I mean,

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one of my favorite stories, actually with zenith and Aberdeen,

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and why I chose to include him in the defenders of Islam is because

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you stood very, very, very clear in his position when it came to

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not letting his lineage and being a prophet Mohammed Al Salam, or a

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descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Salim a member of the Prophet

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Muhammad Selim his family, he chose not to let that get did not

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let that basically be a reason for arrogance. Don't treat me any

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differently because I'm rasool Allah is Allah salams offspring.

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And one of the things that happened the people of Iraq, the

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people of Iraq, and and of course, this happened in many other places

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as well, but he came to him and they would basically, you know,

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treat him with with extra reverence with extra respect to a

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point of Subhanallah to point where they were treating him as

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though he's he's a prophet, or as though he's divine himself. And

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what did he say? What did he say? Subhanallah he said, Yeah,

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hallelujah rock, he Munna hook that is learning what to pay buena

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bill of tsunami, oh, people of Iraq love us the way that you love

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Islam and lovers in the name of Islam and lovers because of your

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love for Islam while at the Buena football of SNAM and don't love us

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the way that you love idols don't idealize us don't just love us

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blindly and think through that love that you want to get the

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highest level of gender no let your love for us. Be a love of

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Islam and let your love of Islam be the reason that you love us.

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And then he added he said them as Allah hug Bukovina hotter birth to

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Munna indigenous illness. So he says you keep on showing this

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exaggerated love. And it's so again, it's like public and it's,

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it's, it's it's, it's like outward piety, right outward piety, to a

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point where people now begin to hate us. You're exaggerating in

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that love. It's not genuine anymore, to the point now where

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people begin to hate us. So love us with moderation. And don't let

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that love for for us, lead us or lead you to thinking that we are

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more than what we really are Subhanallah and once he was

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actually sitting in the Haram sitting in Mecca, and he heard

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some of the people that came to do to do Umrah, and they were talking

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and they were really really ridiculing aboubaker. So anything

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that either didn't stayed silent, ridiculing or Omar stayed silent,

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and then they went to snap and they really really really said

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terrible things about us man. Radi Allahu Anhu and Jimmy and

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so then then Aberdeen walked towards them and he sat next to

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them and he said to them, did you hear the I in the Quran where

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Allah subhanaw taala says little for Cara ill mahadji in

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India to him Well he never to Hoonah formula min Allah who

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worried wanna well saloon Allah wa rasool Allah eco Homosassa *.

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Some are those who are poor, they have emigrated out of Mecca,

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driven out of their homes and left their wealth behind. seeking

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Allah's pleasure and bounty said yes, we heard the idea. He said,

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Are you from them? Are you from the Maharaja when they said no,

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we're not from the maharaja. And he said, Well, are you from the

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group that has mentioned in the second I will Latina teboho

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Dharawal Iman, I mean, covered him up bounnam And Hajra la him? What

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are you doing? I feel so dorium hadn't been met who to wait with

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you?

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Now Anna and Fujimoto candidate has also won the new Kushal

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Hanapepe for older woman with Lebron, and those who had settled

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in the city of Medina and embrace the faith before the immigrants

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that Mahajan came to them, before the arrival of the immigrants,

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they love whoever immigrates to them, never having a desire in

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their heart for whatever of the gains that are given to the

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immigrants and they give selflessly preferring others over

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their own selves, even though they may be in need. And whoever is

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saved from selfishness out of their own souls, they are the ones

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who are truly successful. Are you from those people? They said, No,

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we're not from the managerial we're not from the unsought. Then

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he said to them, by Allah, you're not from the third category either

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in the same series of AI, which Allah subhanaw taala says, When

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Latina Jaya women Bandy him Oh Luna, Rebecca, Wolfie, Lana. Well

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if learning Alladhina said Hakuna bit Imani while I attend your

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unfaithful aubenas inland Lilina Amman Robina in Nicaragua, for

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Rahim, you're not from those who came after them. Those who say, Oh

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our Lord forgive us and our fellow believers before us who preceded

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preceded us in faith. And oh Allah do not allow any bitterness into

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our hearts to any of those who believe our brothers from the

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believers Lo and alarm me. So he said to them, you're not from the

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said they said themselves we're not from them hygiene we're not

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from the answer is anything other than us and you're not from those

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who came after them, have no ill towards them. So hold your tongues

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and hold yourselves accountable before you're forced to stand

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front of Allah subhanaw taala and be held accountable. And this is

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very powerful using the Quran as a clear argument. Why are you making

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again, why are you throwing accusations to those that Allah

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subhanaw taala is honored in the Quran while you're disrespecting

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the work of those who came before you. And although Al Hamdulillah

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we're living in a society and are in a community, where at

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hamdulillah nobody's going to be disrespecting Abu Bakr and Omar on

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Earth man in our communities in our organizations. And it's not

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for example, we're not going to hear that. So why am I mentioning

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the story? Why is it relevant? Because sometimes when you hear

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those with good intentions, saying, oh, remember those uncle's

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who built this organization? Remember the uncles who did this,

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remember, and they will actually mention them, forgetting the good

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that they've done and only focusing on some of the flaws and

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the shortcomings. We wouldn't be where we are had they not done

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what they have done. And every human being has limitations and

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flaws. But Allah subhanaw taala reminds us in this area, to look

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at the good to ask Allah to forgive them for the wrongs that

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they've done. And especially if they're seeking the forgiveness of

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Allah Subhana Allah, and if they're looking for opportunities

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to, you know, seek amendment and to seek or to seek to be closer to

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Allah Subhana Allah to see forgiveness. Don't let the

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mistakes, the small mistakes, or even the major mistakes, cause you

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to label that person forever. Just like you want Allah Subhana Allah

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to forgive you. allow there to be room for others to be forgiven.

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And be careful what you say and choose the highlights of others.

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And of course Abubaker and Armada northlan Who are they compared to

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us? were nothing compared to them. Right? But just a reminder for all

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of us to be, to be fair, in our criticism, to be honest, in what

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we say, to be careful of what this says, you know, sometimes when

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we're cornered, we want to get rid of the blame. So we blame others.

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Stop, stop, be honest, pause, stop talking. Take a step back and be

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fair, be fair, and give everybody give everybody the right that they

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deserve. I want to finish my brothers and my sisters with with

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with something very are two things that shall appear quickly. I was

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in and then I believe they didn't in Aberdeen, I've mentioned to you

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how beautiful and how great of a smile he had and how generous he

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was for the community. A few things very quickly.

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He was so kind, but he went through a lot. He was known for

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having tears run down his eyes often. So once they asked him, Why

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do you have tears running down your eyes often? And he says the

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father of use of the apple Balasana lost eyesight because of

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the departure of his son, Yusuf Ali Sinha. Now I lost 14 of my own

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family. I saw them all killed in front of my own eyes. How do you

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not expect me to have tears rolled down my eyes.

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They didn't Aberdeen, he witnessed Carvela he was sick. He was

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wounded. So he didn't participate and that's why he wasn't killed.

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But he witnessed the slaughter of 14 of his own family members.

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But despite that, he didn't let that builds hatred in his heart.

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He didn't let that build hatred in his heart. And because of his

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ability to hold on and to be disciplined, and to take that

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emotion and translate it into productive

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constructive output rather than destructive output, he earned the

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respect and the love of everybody in this community

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to the point and I want to leave you with this. I love the poem

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that was written about Zayed an Aberdeen

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once and the story behind these very beautiful one Zen him that

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Aberdeen was he was doing kava, he was doing a hedge or doing an

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umbra, some say hydrogen some seomra and this was during the

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time that he shall not the medic was also doing Amara, now he

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shared with Abdul Malik was not the Khalifa. But he was very ill

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and he was second in line. So either his brother or his father

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was the Khalifa at the time. Now he showed up the medic was doing

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Amara and he sees anything that I believe was showing him that the

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medic is doing Amara is doing go off. He tries to get to the

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Blackstone and he can't. So he said some give some give him some

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space goes behind a little bit and his his helpers set up a small

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little, you know sunshade to kind of shade him from the sun. And

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he's sitting in waiting for the crowd declares he can go kiss the

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Blackstone, all of the sudden he sees this man walking. And as this

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man is walking a crowd make space for him to go all the way to the

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stone and to kiss it and everybody's saying I said I'm on

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Aiko. May Allah bless him. Everybody's making dua for him. So

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shall we demand it felt a little bit jealous. So one man is coming.

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He's asked question, Who is this guy? Why does everybody look at

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him and why does everybody respect him? He shall not developed out of

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you know, out of not wanting more attention. I don't know him. Now

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as far as Doc, who was the official poets of the Khalifa at

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the time, was with hishammuddin Abdul Malik and he says if you

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don't know him, I know him. Let me tell you about this man had a lady

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down the phone but he was Peretta who will be to Hill Louisville

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harem had no history by the law equally him had a TPU an APU of PA

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Hiru Allah animal had Neufeld Tinatin in Quinta Jaya healer who

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be jet de Ambia. Allah He caught the whole team, long poem just

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reading your Psalm. And then he says malerkotla Kaku inlife Etosha

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who did he Lola Tasha who deacon at Hoonah amo Tara who either

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magic to whom or to her Lila can Nakamura please lady and Tessa elu

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Allah, Allah, Allah, very beautiful. What does he say? He

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says her the lady Italian food but her work for atta who this is the

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man that the ground knows his footsteps. Of course poems poets

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like to exaggerate, they say even the ground knows who this man is.

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When Bay to Yachty for the house of Allah knows him because he

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comes here often when Hindu and haram and those who are coming to

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do worship here who are in there from those who are entered the say

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that the Koran and those who are outside, not having entered a

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state of the Quran had been hired everybody like equally him. This

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is the son of the best of people to Allah subhanaw taala had a

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toughie UniFi you have pa hirola animal, this is the pure, the

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blessed, the the one that Allah subhanaw taala chose as an icon,

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the one that Allah subhanaw taala chose as a as an icon, had that

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Neufeld Tina, this is the son of faulty man in Quinta, Jaya Hebrew

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if you don't know who he is, visa vie MBA ala carte the full team by

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Him and through Him the best of all the best of profits and all

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the profits were sealed through his grandfather. And then he said

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his famous line malerkotla Vitosha who did he? He never said no,

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except in his the shareholder Illa Illa Allah, no one worthy of

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worship except Allah, lo Leicestershire who the current

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owner, had it not been further to shareholder Illa Illa Allah he's

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no would have been a yes. Meaning he never said no to anybody who

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came asking you for anything. The word no did not exist in his

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vocabulary except when he said no one worthy of worship except

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Allah. Dot all who either imagi tell him what the * Lilla when

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you come to ask for something you see him open his arms like a moon

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that shines like a question that shines in the dark night. Get a

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neck Mr. Lee lady and Tessa you know, as though you've come to

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give him what you've come to ask for. That's Zayn ignitability and

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that's why he is one of the defenders of Islam. May Allah

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Subhana Allah bless you and your family and give you genetic for

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those for the next 28 nights in sha Allah. Every night we're going

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to look at a figure like we did tonight with zip in Aberdeen. Look

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at their contributions, look at why they have left a beautiful

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legacy, how they stood out. I asked Allah to bless you and your

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family division and for those so much can be said about him but we

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kept it brief in sha Allah. Let us try to embody some of that. Leave

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some of the comments share this so that the Azure can spread and the

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head can spread keep us in your DUA and in a few moments. We're

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going to be beginning inshallah with our next session, which is

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going to be a little bit light humor, crazy stories with our shoe

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